Cooking Terms

1. Cooking Terms The Language of the Recipe

2. The Language of the Recipe • Become familiar • Terms are important tools for the cook. • Each has its own meaning. • Achieve best results.

3. Bread Grease Brush Marinate Dredge Sift Flute Grease Techniques of: Preparation

4. Bread • To cover a food with a coating of crumbs made from bread, crackers, or cereal. The food is often dipped in a liquid such as milk or egg before coating.

5. Brush • To spread a liquid coating on a food, using a pastry brush or paper towel.

6. Dredge • To cover a food with a dry ingredient such as flour or sugar. The food may be rolled in, sprinkled with, or shaken in a bag with the dry ingredient.

7. Flute • To form a standing edge on a pastry, such as pie crust, before baking. Press the dough with your fingers to create this scalloped edge, or use a fork to “crimp” the edge.

8. Grease • To rub shortening, fat, or oil, on the cooking surface of bake-ware. Use waxed paper or paper towel to spread a thin, even layer.

9. Marinate • To soak in a seasoned liquid, called a marinade, to add flavor and/or to tenderize.

10. Sift • To put dry ingredients through a sifter or a fine sieve to incorporate air. • If you don’t have a sifter you can use a strainer or a wire whisk.

11. Techniques of: Mixing Beat Knead Blend Mix Combine Stir Cream Whip Cut in Fold in Puree

12. Beat • To mix with an over-and-over motion, using a spoon, rotary, or electric beater.

13. Blend • To combine thoroughly two or more ingredients.

14. Combine • To mix together, usually by stirring, two or more ingredients.

15. Cream • To soften and blend until smooth and light by mixing with a spoon or an electric mixer.

16. Cut in • To mix solid shortening with flour by cutting the shortening into small pieces and mixing until it is completely covered with the flour mixture. Use a pastry blender, two knives, or a fork.

17. Fold in To combine two mixtures by gently cutting down through the mixture, across the bottom and turning over near the surface. Spoon stays in the mixture until well blended.

18. Knead • To work dough by folding, pressing, and turning, until it is smooth and elastic. Place dough on a floured board, fold it in half, and press firmly with the heels of your hands. Turn the dough about a quarter turn, and repeat the folding and pressing.

19. Mix To combine two or more ingredients, usually by stirring.

20. Stir To mix with a circular motion of a spoon or other utensil.

21. Whip To beat rapidly with a rotary beater, an electric mixer, or wire whisk; to incorporate air and make light and fluffy, as whipped cream or egg white

22. Techniques of: Cutting Chop Grind Core Julienne Cube Mash Cut Mince Dice Puree Pare Grate Score Scrape Shred Slice Sliver Trim

23. Chop To cut into small pieces

24. Core To remove the core of a fruit with a corer or paring knife

25. Cube To cut into small squares

26. Cut To divide foods into small pieces with a knife or scissors.

27. Dice To cut into very small cubes

28. Grate To rub food, such as lemon or orange peel, against a grater to obtain fine particles.

29. Julienne To cut food into long, thin strips.

30. Mash To crush food until it becomes smooth.

31. Mince To cut into very small pieces with a sharp knife.

32. Pare To cut away the skin or a very thin layer of the outside of fruits or vegetables. Use a vegetable peeler or a knife.

33. Puree To press food through a food mill or fine strainer to make it smooth and semi-liquid

34. Score To make thin, straight cuts through the outer edge of fat on meat to prevent the meat from curling during cooking.

35. Scrape To rub a vegetable, such as a carrot, with the sharp edge of a knife in order to remove only the outer layer of skin.

36. Shred To tear or cut into thin pieces or strips.

37. Slice To cut food into flat pieces.

38. Sliver To cut in long, thin pieces.

39. Trim To cut away most of the fat from the edges of meat.

40. Techniques of: Cooking Bake Barbeque Baste Boil Braise Blanch Broil Brown Deep-fat fry Dot Fry Pan-broil Pan-fry Poach Preheat Roast Saute Scald

41. Bake • To cook in an oven or oven-type appliance in a covered or uncovered pan.

42. Barbeque • To cook meat or poultry slowly over coals on a spit or in the oven, basting it often with a highly seasoned sauce.

43. Baste • To spread, brush, or pour liquid (such as sauce, drippings, melted fat, or marinade) over food while it is cooking. Use a baster, brush, or spoon.

44. Blanch • To put food, such as beans, in boiling water for a very short time to slightly precook, before putting in cold water to stop the cooking process

45. Boil To cook in liquid, usually water, in which bubbles rise constantly and then break on the surface.

46. Braise To cook meat slowly, covered and in a small amount of liquid or steam.

47. Broil To cook under direct heat or over coals.

48. Brown To make the surface of a food brown in color by frying, broiling, baking in the oven, or toasting.

49. Deep-fat fry To cook in hot fat that completely covers the food.

50. Dot To place small particles of a solid, such as butter, on the surface of a food.